 Thermal Coatings for Turbines Require High-Purity Materials |
 Neutron Radiography Requires High-Purity Materials |
 Lasers Require High-Purity Materials |
 Plasma Screens Require High-Purity Materials |
Molycorp and its subsidiary companies produce some of the highest purity rare earth and rare metal materials in the world. These highly advanced processing capabilities allow us to meet increasingly demanding specifications by manufacturers that need very pure and custom engineered materials.
Technologies and applications that need high-purity, custom engineered rare earth materials include: multi-layer ceramic capacitors, widely used in many advanced and consumer electronics; phosphors for compact fluorescent lighting, plasma screens, and LEDs; high-precision lenses and optics; electronic sensors; super alloys; advanced ceramics; thermal barrier coatings; lasers; neutron radiography; and many others.
To help serve these and other high-end markets, we produce these rare earth materials to the following purity levels:
| Rare Earth Material | REO/TREO % |
| Yttrium Oxide | 99.9999 |
| Yttrium Europium Gadolinium | 99.99 |
| Yttrium Europium Oxide | 99.99 |
| Lanthanum Acetate | 99.5 |
| Lanthannum Acetetate Solution | 99.5 |
| Lanthan Nitrate Solution | 99.5 |
| Lanthanum Nitrate Crystal | 99.5 |
| Lanthanum Carbonate | 99.5 – 99.99 |
| Lanthanum Hydroxide | 99.995 |
| Lanthanum Oxide | 99.5 |
| Lanthanum Cerium Terbium Oxide | 99.99 |
| Cerium Acetate | 99.5 |
| Cerium Carbonate | 99.5 |
| Cerium Nitrate Solution | 99.5 |
| Cerium Nitrate Crystal | 99.5 |
| Cerium Chloride | 99.5 |
| Cerium Hydroxide | 99.5 |
| Cerium Oxide | 99.5 – 99.99 |
| Praseodymium Carbonate | 99.5 |
| Praseodymium Oxide | 99.5 – 99.9 |
| Neodymium carbonate | 99.5 – 99.9 |
| Neodymium Oxalate | 99.5 |
| Neodymium Oxide | 99.5 – 99.99 |
| Neodymium Praseodymium Oxide | 99.5 – 99.9 |
| Samarium Oxide | 99.9 |
| Europium Oxide | 99.999 |
| Gadolinium Oxide | 99.99 |
| Terbium Oxide | 99.995 |
| Dysprosium Oxide | 99.995 |
| Holmium Oxide | 99.9 |
| Erbium Oxide | 99.9 |
| Ytterbium Oxide | 99.9 |
| Lutetium Oxide | 99.995 |